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Communicate with Power – How to Establish Authority and Credibility While Managing Perceptions of Your Middle Eastern Background

April 25 @ 5:05 am

Communicate with Power – How to Establish Authority and Credibility While Managing Perceptions of Your Middle Eastern Background

 

Interested in improving your communication skills? Do you feel your background might be affecting how people perceive you in the work place? Then join us for this exciting and important lecture about how to improve your professional communication skills to establish credibility and authority. 

While many of us share the general challenges, of professional communication, studies have shown, that it is often ethnic professionals who have additional challenges in establishing credibility and authority, and in overcoming bias.

 

 In this lecture, we will learn from Ms. Michele Souda, an expert in the communications field, how to improve communication skills, while dealing with the pre-conceived notions and biases against professionals with a Middle Eastern background.

 

For more information, please visit the Facebook event and RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/events/376730302430915/

 You will not want to miss this insightful lecture.

Looking forward to seeing you.
NAAP-Boston Team.

 

Speaker’s Bio:

Michele Souda, is Founder and President of WORDPOWER Communications© and Cambridge Communications, LLC (http://www.cambridgecommunications.com/). She has taught all areas of business communication—presentation making, public speaking, writing, and meeting skills–for over 25 years– to clients in both the private and public sectors. She devotes a sizeable portion of her consulting practice to Executive Development. For 7 years she served as a full time member of the Harvard faculty.

In addition to full-time standing at Harvard, she has taught specialized Business Communication courses for Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard’s Bunting Institute, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Her courses at Harvard represent work with international business, technology, science, and other professional audiences.

Ms. Souda has also served on the faculty of Hult International Business School where she has taught Management Communication in their MBA program to a broad international clientele.

Previous to her tenure at Harvard and Hult, Ms. Souda founded and launched (with the late Helen Loeb) the business and technical communication programs at Northeastern University. She has taught advanced Business Communication courses at both Northeastern and Harvard.

She has consulted for the high tech industry (EMC Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Haemonetics, Colgate-Palmolive); for the banking and finance sector (The Federal Reserve Bank, Citibank, State Street Corporation, Harvard University); for corporations (Reebok International, the Stride-Rite Corporation, The T.J. Maxx Companies, The Rockport Company); for pharmaceuticals and health care (Burroughs Wellcome Pharmaceuticals, Harvard-Pilgrim Health Plan, the Brigham and Women’s hospital) and many more. In all cases she has worked with a company’s high tech division, its marketing and sales departments, and with its executives and managers.

Ms. Souda has devoted a large portion of her practice to communication skills for international professionals. She has shown that, while many share the general challenges of professional communication, it is often ethnic-professionals who have additional challenges in establishing credibility and authority, and in overcoming bias.

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